Audio and Video
Live Event: The Wide World of Urban Nature
May 17, 2013
Summary: We often think of nature as existing only in wild places far from the city, but life abounds even in the cracks of sidewalks—if you know how and when to look. Orion assembled a panel of urban ecologists from across North America—Beatrix Beisner, Liam Heneghan, and Kevin Anderson—for a wide-ranging discussion of urban nature and how this fascinating field of study is evolving.
Live Event: The Poet-Scientist: Where Wonder and Data Collide
April 29, 2013
Summary: Edward Abbey wrote that a landscape can be understood best by "poets who have their feet planted in concrete—concrete data—and by scientists whose heads and hearts have not lost the capacity for wonder." Orion's poetry editor was joined by poet-scientists Eva Saulitis, Elizabeth Bradfield, and Fred Swanson for a discussion of how the voice and mind of the artist and scientist form a unique understanding of the land.
Conversation with the 2013 Orion Book Award Winning Author Craig Childs
April 24, 2013
Summary: Managing Editor Andrew Blechman speaks with Craig Childs, whose book Apocalyptic Planet: Field Guide to the Everending Earth won the 2013 Orion Book Award. Childs discusses the fate of our planet, the fate of humanity, and traveling to some of the harshest, most remote corners of our planet—including a hellacious camping expedition through a massive Iowa GMO cornfield—while exploring the cycles of life and death on a scale most of us rarely think about.
Sandra Steingraber Discusses Her May/June 2013 Column
April 24, 2013
Summary: Managing editor Andrew Blechman speaks with author Sandra Steingraber about her latest column for Orion, “The Discontent of Our Winter,” in which she discusses how the seeming loss of winter has affected her young children. Sandra also talks about what it’s like to be a climate crusader who’s also a mom.
Luis Alberto Urrea Reads from His May/June 2013 Column
April 24, 2013
Summary: Author Luis Alberto Urrea reads his latest Wastelander column—“Barrio Walden”—about his attempts to find Walden Pond as a young student from the barrios of Southern California freshly relocated to New England.
Orion Editors Out Loud: May/June 2013
April 24, 2013
Summary: Orion editors Jennifer Sahn and Andrew Blechman discuss the May/June 2013 issue of the magazine, including an essay by bestselling author Rebecca Solnit on Thoreau’s forays from his cabin to do laundry at his family’s house; Christopher Merrill’s literary look at the future of war; David Treuer’s formative years as an eager trapper of beaver; and a sea change among the turtles of Baja California.
Audio Slide Show: Tortuga Rising
April 24, 2013
Summary: See more of Neil Osborne’s photographs of sea turtles and their rescuers on Mexico’s Pacific coast. The slide show is narrated by Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, who has spent the past twenty years successfully rescuing these ancient mariners from near extinction.
Live Event: Art That Restores
March 20, 2013
Summary: Art is celebrated for its ability to revive the human spirit, but there is a growing legion of artists whose work also restores the landscape. Basia Irland creates such work in rivers around the world; here, she discusses her project "Books of Ice," which appeared in the March/April 2013 issue of Orion. She was joined by fellow restorative artist Daniel McCormick, who was profiled in Orion in 2008 ("Healing Sculpture"), and by author and art critic William Fox.
Audio Slide Show: Books of Ice
February 27, 2013
Summary: Photos from Basia Irland's ice sculpture project, which raises awareness about the health of our waterways by identifying plants that are native to certain rivers, freezing seeds of these plants in water from these rivers, carving "books" out of the resulting ice, and then releasing them back into the rivers with the support of local students and community members.
Jeremy Miller Discusses the Centroid
February 27, 2013
Summary: Managing Editor Andrew Blechman speaks with author Jeremy Miller about the Centroid, a little-known but rather fascinating statistic developed after every U.S. census to help describe the movement of America’s unusually restless population. Who knew a chronically underreported statistic could be so interesting, let alone telling?
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